What it takes for an autistic to appear "normal"

Most people don't know how much effort Autistics put in to just have a conversation. So

I wrote out the program I run when I'm in a conversation. It's written as a flowchart. It's everything my brain does while I'm having a conversation. 

I can confirm that this whole program is done entirely consciously. All of these thoughts are running in my head at high speed.

I didn't realize everyone didn't do this until recently.

This is a part of autistic masking.

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